Collection of utilities to automate the administration of Twisted's
infrastructure. Use this utility to install, update and start/stop/restart
services running on twistedmatrix.com.
Available commands:
dns.install
dns.restart
dns.start
dns.stop
dns.update
...

Configuration

Before being able to run any task, we need to configure the tool to work with Twisted's infrastructure and your login user. All configuration directives are contained in the config.py file. The base installation ships with a sample configuration file in config.py.sample. Copy it over and start editing it:

cp config.py.sample config.py
vim config.py

The two main directives to change are the HOSTS and USER ones. The first contains a list of hosts you want to administer, while the second one is, well, your ssh user to access the previously defined hosts. All found uppercase variables are lowercased and set as attributes of Fabric's env global variable. This means that any configuration directive recognized by Fabric can be defined in the config.py file as well.

Note: your user has to be at least in the service-admin group on the servers you want to manage in order to be able to start/stop/restart and update services. If you want to be able to install new services or give permissions to other users to manage them, your user has to be able to gain root access as well.